This vital new text offers a holistic view of the factors affecting the different tiers of sustainability, public health, poverty, security and production within the food supply chain. With contributions from international experts in the field, it takes particular emphasis on growing populations and the deployment of agricultural land for uses other than food production. There are a growing number of key issues now facing the food agri-food and food industries, particularly in the light of growing populations and the deployment of agricultural land for uses other than food production e.g. biofuel. Contemporary Issues in the Food Supply Chain is the first text to provide a holistic overview covering topics such as: food security, sustainable intensification, obesity and food poverty, the environmental impact of the food supply chain, social and political climates and health. The text is divided into 3 key areas as follows: * The supply chain - problems and dilemmas including traceability, integrity, the changing consumer and food definitions. * Sustainable sourcing of food including food resources and human evolution, CSR, food security and alternative food production * Case studies and new areas of research including rural land use; carbon footprint; managing pathogens; Brexit as an opportunity for nutrition related health in agricultural policy. A must have text for academics, researchers, practitioners, policy makers and students in the fields of food management, agricultural and associated business courses.

This book is about an analysis of agility in the Ghanaian pineapple supply chain for export. It deals with issues on how managers in the supply chain might cope with changes which are unpredictable or uncertain against the performance of its main competitors in the UK. Using a scale proposed by van der Vorst (2000), the supply chain bottlenecks were identified. Interviews both in Gahana and in the UK enabled the authors to calculate agility gap ratios of the Ghanaian pineapple supply chain based on Oosterhout et al. (2006). It could be concluded that those involved in the Ghanaian pineapple supply chain needed to be more agile in the way they adapt to importers' needs. The Ghanaian supply chain could be considered the least agile confirming that that country has been losing market share in recent years. Proposed agility redesign variables and enablers were then derived for the agility gaps found to embed agility in to the Ghanaian supply chain.